PHP Developer in Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina

Member since November 2, 2012

Francisco is a full-stack engineer currently focused on hybrid apps (Ionic/Cordova) who has extensive experience in innovative solutions, Arduino, API/REST back-ends, distributed data manipulation systems, web applications, and UI/UX. He maintains a strong focus on sustainability and performance in his work and in the products he develops.

Experience

Availability

Preferred Environment

WAMP, LAMP

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is a distributed time attendance system used by thousands of employees.

Employment

Mobile App Developer

2016 - 2017

Object Lateral, Inc. (via Toptal)

Developed a cross-platform (Android/iOS) app that could scan ISBN barcodes directly from the device. The app was developed using Ionic framework to ease the startup and validate the product faster for both platforms.

Generated a comprehensive document to share with the rest of the team so they could continue on without issues, considering they were not familiar with the environment. The barcode scanner was implemented directly from the app using the camera and worked flawlessly both in iOS and Android with impressive speed and accuracy.

Technologies: Ionic Framework, Cordova, HTML5, AngularJS, Git

Ionic Developer/PHP Back-end Developer

2015 - 2017

InterKnowledge Corp

Developed an Ionic app to show events happening in NY for both Android and iOS.

Developed the API to serve the events and connect to the DB with CakePHP.

Developed the admin panel to process all the data using the API and AngularJS with Bootstrap for the UI.

Generated a tool to scrape public Facebook events to ease the task of adding info to the platform.

Integrated a PHP-based reporting tool to the system.

Using AWS, generated the server environment using Amazon's load balancer, private networks, Redis server, RDS database, and EBS to deploy new versions and scale as needed.

Technologies: Ionic, Apache Cordova, CakePHP, AWS

Developer, Engineer

2014 - 2016

Bryxe/Acupic

Helped the UI redesign efforts.

Coded a PHP back-end to support UI interactions.

Added communication via sockets with a C++ server.

Supported refactoring of the existing codebase.

Refactored the existing front-end to make the site responsive.

Technologies: HTML5, JavaScript, PHP

College Webmaster Director

2013 - 2016

Instituto Superior Santo Domingo

Handled coordination of professors.

Planned course content and definitions.

Handled student induction and assistance.

Coordinated the e-learning course platform.

Synchronized student professional profile definitions with current market requirements.

Developed an online tourism information management system with a calendar of regional events, photo galleries, user registrations, and photo sharing.

Developed a music platform with an online WAV/MP3 player and a playlist management and sharing tool.

Handled platform maintenance and upgrades.

Technologies: HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript

Experience

Digital Fingerprint Time Attendance System (Development)

I developed a Java desktop app to enroll employees using their fingerprint (feature template extraction). I also developed an online web app where HR admins can manage all the information and view/download reports (PDF, Excel).

The system is currently being used by several companies, one of them with more than 2,000 employees enrolled in several branches.

I implemented a remote weather station to log wind speed and wind angle for a kitesurfing website app using an Arduino (C code) that reports weather to a PHP service.

All the data is plotted using pCharts and Ajax in a CakePHP environment.

Ionic iOS/Android Events App (Development)

I developed a highly customized platform based on CakePHP, with automation tools, news, and ad management. The service API as well as Ionic-based Android and iOS apps are available for download from both stores as AskPearl.

A weather station that I developed using Arduino which sends weather info via Bluetooth to an Android device which, in turn, connects to the servers via a PHP REST API to keep the weather data updated. This info is used in my other app called Kitesurf Cordoba, which is also Ionic-based.

An Ionic-based Android app used by a big company in Argentina to track employees tasks allowing them to take photos from the camera directly within the app or choose from their devices and add this as "notes" to keep the supervisors' team updated with any important news. It serves more than 50,000 weekly requests.

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